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Sarah and Angelina Grimké

Brad Fortunato & Tess Madarasz

• Lived in Charleston, on a plantation in South Carolina

• Sarah was born in 1792 and died in 1873• Angelina was born in 1805 and died in 1879• 2 out of 14 children born to John and Mary Grimké• Sarah dreamed of becoming a lawyer • Angelina was raised by Sarah

Biography

• Both questioned the idea of slavery and the treatment of women

• Sarah moved to Philadelphia at age 29 to join Quaker society

• Angelina later joined Sarah in Philadelphia in 1829

Early Actions

• Speaking tour of the Northeast throughout 67 cities

• Last stop of the tour was the Massachusetts Legislature, Angelina became the first woman in American history to speak in front of a legislative body

• Forced to withdraw from Quaker society• First women to address co-ed audiences

Later Career

• Letter to the editor of The Liberator

• Appeal to the Christian Women of the South

• "Letter XII Human Rights Not Founded on Sex,"

Literary Works

• 19th and 20th century: women’s suffrage, education, and working conditions

• 1960-80’s: inequality laws• 1980’s- present: continuation of the second

phase• Sarah and Angelina played a key role in the

beginning of the movement

Feminism

• Movement to end slavery• Famous Abolitionists: Frederick Douglass,

William Lloyd Garrison, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Slavery was a huge part of American economy• Abolitionists saw the horrors of slavery and

sought for the end of it

Abolitionism

• "All men, every where and of every color are born equal and have an inalienable right to liberty."

• "No circumstances can ever justify a man holding his fellow man as property."

• "Whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them."

• "Human beings have rights because they are moral beings, whatever is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do."

Famous Quotes

• They overall set the precedent for future feminists and abolitionists.

• Noted abolitionists and feminist advocates would follow in the footsteps set by the sisters

• Such as Susan B. Anthony and Lucy Stone

Accomplishments

• "Angelina and Sarah Grimke." History's Women. Web. 21 Mar. 2012. <http://www.historyswomen.com/socialreformer/grimke2.html>.

• "Feminism and Women's Studies." : A Brief Overview of. Web. 21 Mar. 2012. <http://feminism.eserver.org/about/overview.html>.

• "The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History." History Now. The Historians Perspective. Web. 21 Mar. 2012. http://

www.gilderlehrman.org/historynow/09_2005/historian4.php

• "Sarah Grimke and Angelina Grimke Weld." Harvard University Library Open Collections Program. N.p., n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2012. <http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/ww/grimke.html>.

• Whipps, Judy. "Sarah Grimké (1792-1873) and Angelina Grimké Weld (1805-1879)." Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. N.p., 25

Mar. 2011. Web. 17 Mar. 2012. <http://www.iep.utm.edu/grimke/>.

• Grimke, Angelina. "Appeal To the Christian Women of the South." Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture. University of Virginia, 1836. Web. 17

Mar. 2012. <http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/abesaegat.html>.

• "People & Ideas: Angelina and Sarah Grimké." God in America. PBS, n.d. Web. 17 Mar. 2012. <http://www.pbs.org/godinamerica/people/angelina-grimke.html>.

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